Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein

Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein (1993-15 February 2015) was a Muslim from Denmark who was the perpetrator of the 2015 Copenhagen attacks.

Biography
Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein was born in 1993 in Denmark to a Muslim family originally from Palestine. He had a criminal record, from assault to possessing illegal firearms. He was later inspired by Islamic State propaganda, and in 2015 he decided to attempt to assassinate cartoonist Lars Vilks at a memorial for the 26th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie. He killed a Danish filmmaker at the event, and he later killed a security guard at a synagogue. He was killed by Danish police at 4:50 AM on 15 February 2015 at the train station of Norrebro.